Great Outdoors
Zoo trip rekindles interest in animals
Young kids and wild animals are a great mix, as long as you keep ‘em separated. I’m not sure what the animals think about the kids, but the kids get pretty excited about the animals. […]
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Sports
Wingard on Thorpe Award Watch List
by staff–11 Jul ’16 The Jim Thorpe Award announced its preseason list of potential candidates on Monday, and University of Wyoming sophomore free safety Andrew Wingard is among the 39 defensive backs nationally to be […]
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Opposition To Wind Tax Grows
AP 7-11,2016 Opposition is growing across Wyoming to any increase in the state’s wind-generation tax. The Wyoming Association of Municipalities, Carbon County Commissioners and others are opposed proposals by state lawmakers to raise taxes. Wyoming […]
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U.W. Offers Early Retirement In Effort To Save Money
AP 7-11,2016 The University of Wyoming is offering retirement incentives for certain employees as part of a plan to cut $35 million from the budget ending in 2018. University vice president and general counsel Rick […]
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Fremont County Woman Playing Pokémon Go Finds Dead Body
AP 7-7,2016 Authorities in central Wyoming are investigating after a woman playing the popular smartphone game Pokemon Go found a man’s body in a river. Shayla Wiggens told the Riverton Ranger newspaper (http://tinyurl.com/gop7lrr ) that […]
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Wyoming Joins School Transgender Bathroom Lawsuit
By Staff 7-11,2016 Governor Matt Mead has instructed the Attorney General to join nine other states in a lawsuit over recent pronouncements by the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) and Department of Justice (DOJ) regarding […]
Great Outdoors
30 miles per gallon in a full-size truck?
One of the coolest things I get to do for this radio show is to test the latest and greatest trucks and SUVs available. They’re usually four-wheel-drives, or occasionally all-wheel-drives. But a few weeks ago, […]
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Former Cowboy Thrower in Finals of U.S. Olympic Trials
by staff–8 Jul ’16 Former University of Wyoming All-American Mason Finley began the U.S. Olympic Trials on Thursday exactly the way he had hoped, finishing first in the qualifying round of the men’s discus competition […]
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Fixing “The Moat” causes split feelings
For the past four years, the driveway to our house has been quite a conversation piece. We called it The Moat. It’s a mile of dirt without even a hint of gravel on it. At […]
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Data Trespass Lawsuit Dismissed
AP 7-7,2016 A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit challenging Wyoming laws that prohibit trespassing on private lands to collect data. Groups including the Western Watersheds Project, the Natural Resources Defense Council and the National […]